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Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…r with the United States, it lacks the strategic significance of its South Asian neighbors India and Pakistan. Additionally, the attacks against the bloggers are often presented in U.S. media without context. Perhaps more problematically, many Bangladeshis, particularly those living in more upscale parts of Dhaka, the capital city, have largely been shielded from the creeping extremism taking place throughout the country. Moreover, despite being b…

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

By Tom Hogan

…of our Guatemalan neighbors, but that was it. And if you’re a post-Vietnam Asian—or worse, a black African of any era—then God help you. Because the rest of the world won’t. Most of us have been born into a ‘post-genocide’ world, coming of age since Lemkin’s heroic efforts to define ‘genocide’ and shame a world into acting. Unlike our parents and grandparents, who received news of the Nazi camps through the sterile world of print, we get our news…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…rights around the world. Unfortunately, Trump’s cabinet choices include a number of stridently anti-gay figures, and his rumored pick of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State is sounding alarm for Tillerson’s close ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as well as the company’s historically poor track record on LGBT issues. C-Fam, the US based organization that is helping to lead an anti-LGBT backlash at the United Nations, attacked a spee…

Obama’s Jewish Problem

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…opulation, but they are mostly concentrated in the states with the highest number of delegate and electoral votes (New York, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois), they contribute financially to politicians disproportionately to their percentage, and they are often in key roles as opinion shapers in the communities where they work or live. Democratic Party appeals to the Jewish vote are not much different than appeals to other con…

Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw

By Ira Chernus

…piral on, deepening the sense that Israel is not yet normal. Indeed, large numbers of Israelis seem convinced that the original goal of “normalization” is permanently beyond reach, or else a distant eschatological goal at best. Decades of war and occupation have forced them to confront the moral compromises they make to defeat their enemies. To ease their consciences, most reaffirm their conviction that none of this is due to Israeli policy; it is…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ews of color may include but are not exclusive to Jews of African descent. Asian Jews, Latinx Jews, some Mizrachi Jews, as well as mixed race Ashkenazi Jews all qualify as “Jews of color.” Simply put, the only thing that binds Jews of color together is that they’re not considered White. It tells you nothing about their association with the Jewish people or faith. Much like the equally amorphous “people of color” which in its contemporary use has c…

Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology

By Jay Michaelson

…ortant but, it is possible to get better at not getting anywhere. All the Asian contemplative traditions have notions of a path, of development, of a dharma that evolves over the course of one’s practice. Yet in many streams of Western Buddhism, this idea was not just lost but deliberately omitted in translation. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? The truth is, there are a lot of same-old, same-old Buddhist books out there, ai…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…f these narratives, repeating story after story after story about Black or Asian men debauching naïve White teenage girls. What emerged was a racial-religious threat. The dominant narrative treated the United States as a White Protestant nation chosen by God to bring about the Millennial Kingdom, a destiny threatened by the iniquity, degeneracy, and crime of racial others. Of course the media rarely made such explicitly religious claims and it’s l…

Response to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women

By Mary E. Hunt

…ican American), mujeristas (Latina), post colonialists, indigenous, Queer, Asian feminists, and others are engaged in theological reflections that make unique and important contributions to the work. We do not all agree on everything. But taken together, we offer a rich and variegated gestalt that is reshaping the religious landscape from the names of the divine to ethical claims, from new readings of sacred texts to new forms of religious leaders…

Conservative Bishops Get “Different Translation” Dialing Back Language on LGBT Acceptance

By Patricia Miller

…ts and different cultures. Africa is totally different from the West. Also Asian and Muslim countries, they’re very different, especially about gays. You can’t speak about this with Africans and people of Muslim countries. It’s not possible. It’s a taboo. He then went on to have this exchange with reporter Edward Pentin: But are African participants listened to in this regard? No, the majority of them [who hold these views won’t speak about them]….